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jaxisland

Posted 19 February 2008 - 05:34 AM

jaxisland

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You definitely dont want to crack the drive open, there is no turning back from there and you will almost certainly lose whats on the drive.
What has worked for me, is I removed the drive from the computer, then put it in another computer that is working as a slave drive. This way you boot with the good computer, then that drive shows up as a second drive in My Computer.

From there you can just browse the drive and copy and paste to a good drive.